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...have almost resigned themselves to new disclosures about bad loans and questionable practices at banks that were once considered above reproach. Last week came another surprise. Two of the ten biggest banks in the U.S., Bank of America and First Chicago, said that federal regulators had forced them to shore up their financial structure. Comptroller of the Currency C. Todd Conover ordered both institutions to increase their level of capital, which is the pool of money that belongs to a bank itself and its shareholders...
...Sandinista Defense Committees carried that message door to door. Presidential Candidate Ortega stressed the same theme at a mammoth windup campaign rally in Managua, the capital, three days before the balloting. As some 300,000 people filled the huge, newly constructed Plaza of the Heroes and Martyrs on the shore of Lake Managua, Ortega declared, "All Nicaraguans who are Nicaraguans are going to vote...
...shark. Says Rehm: "I don't know whether I saw the blood first or the shark." The monstrous fish swam toward Rehm, spat out Conger and then vanished. Recalls Rehm: "Omar said, 'Help me.' " It was too late: by the time Rehm had floated him to shore on a raft, Conger was dead...
...little study, would see their public stance on the defense for what it really is: political subterfuge, and a hollow avoidance of substantive discussion. "Because the currents calling criminal responsibility into question are so strong," writes Yale Law School Professor Abraham Goldstein, "those who look to criminal law to shore up weakened social supports see the insanity defense as a call to battle." The same kind of Administration thinking that hoped to tamper with the exclusionary rule has allowed the Justice Department to exploit the burst of media attention and attack a straw...
...shore up sagging prices, OPEC aims to cut output...